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Displaying 126 - 130 of 447LAND TITLING IN PERU: IS IT FULFILLING ITS PROMISE?
The objective of this paper is to determine the impact of land titling in coastal Peru on the beneficiaries of this program. The paper examines the effects of land titling on access to credit, on-farm investment, the use of conservation techniques and the functioning of land markets. Land Economics/Use,
AN ANALYSIS OF LAND DISTRIBUTION AND CONCENTRATION IN BOLIVIA
Despite the implementation of Bolivia's land reform in 1953, the agrarian structure continues to have an extreme concentration of land. Furthermore, in the last two decades regional agrarian structure have been aggravated by population pressures and a lack of new technological practices for most small scale farmers and peasants. Public and private institutions and urban residents observe hundreds of landless and near-landless families in the cities searching for jobs. Most end up becoming part of the growing unemployed labor force in the urban sector.
LAND TENURE INSECURITY AND LABOR ALLOCATION IN RURAL CHINA
Farmers' ability to leave agriculture is an important and debated topic in China and other countries. Many scholars believe China's unique land tenure policies prevent farmers from leaving agriculture. This paper examines the hypothesis that China's land tenure system deters exit from agriculture using household level data from Northeast China. Farm Management, Labor and Human Capital, Land Economics/Use,
LAND MARKET AND FARM INCOMES IN ITALY
First Annual Conference on Agricultural Policy and the Environment; Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by University of Minnesota, Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy; Agricultural Development Regional Agency (ESAV); University of Padova, Motta di Livenza, Italy, June 19-23, 1989, Volume III Contents: Development of Land Prices in Italy, by Maurizio Grillenzoni Land Prices and Farm Incomes in Emilia-Romagna, by Guido M.
PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY OF INDIVIDUAL FARMS IN POLAND: A CASE FOR LAND CONSOLIDATION
The article examines productivity and efficiency of Polish individual farms, contributing to the policy debate on excessive fragmentation and the need for land consolidation. Data of a rural household survey conducted in the spring of 2000 show that Polish individual farms in the size range of up to 100 hectares have positive marginal productivity of land and increasing returns to scale. Among the individual farms surveyed, larger farms report higher household incomes from farm and non-farm sources combined.